Subject: Materials for psychology course for Music Majors From: Matthew McCabe <mccabem@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:20:55 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>hi all -- i'm in the process of developing my first music psychology class here at CSU for this coming Spring semester, and i thought i would ask a really loaded question: can anyone recommend introductory-level materials (journal articles or online resources preferable) that i can use to bring undergraduate music majors up to speed on general psychology and auditory perception topics? the reason i ask is this: the majority of them will have never seen anything like this before since the course is for music majors. our school is very performance-oriented, and it wouldn't surprise me if i had to explain things like the physics of a vibrating string and explain what an overtone is during the first week... time i don't want to squander. i'm looking for easy-to-understand articles on the fundamentals -- auditory perception, cognitive psychology, the scientific method, things like that. we will be addressing a variety of topics, but i haven't quite nailed down specifically which yet. in all likelihood we will do things like emotion, memory, and musical meaning, but i need to see how much time i have once we get past the basics. if you've taught a course like this before, please let me know what you have used. i've already chosen our textbook -- William Forde Thompson's "Music, Thought, and Feeling" -- which I like very much. i think the students will enjoy it if i present it the right way! many of them have never approached music in this way before and i'm looking forward to messing them up a bit :) best, m --- matthew mccabe <mccabem@xxxxxxxx> visiting assistant professor / music tech :: columbus state university ph.d. candidate :: music composition :: uf college of fine arts lab member :: reilly cognition and language lab :: uf phhp